Solomon Island Model Canoe
1902
Length 49 1/2"
Height 19 1/4" not including custom period base
Provenance: Michael Graham Stewart, Auckland, NZ
HMS Dart was a schooner of the Royal Navy, built by the Barrow Shipbuilding Company, Barrow and launched in 1877 as Cruiser for Lord Eglinton. She was subsequently purchased by the Colonial Office for the use of Sir Arthur Hamilton Gordon as governor of the Fiji Islands. On his appointment to New Zealand Cruiser was purchased by the Royal Navy as a tender for the training ship Britannia and the name changed to Dart in March 1882. Requisitioned as a yacht for the Commander-in-Chief, Australia Station, she instead was fitted out for survey duties of the Australia Station. She commenced service on the Australia Station in 1883 undertaking hydrographic surveys around Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific; including survey work in the waters of Fiji, Gilbert and Ellice Islands Marshall Islands and New Britain Island, from May to September, 1884. In 1885 she became the first command of Arthur Mostyn Field. She was reported as potentially lost on Wednesday 26 June 1889 after a whaleboat was found near North Cape, Auckland, but she later sailed into Sydney. Lieutenant Frederick Claude Coote Pasco was appointed in command in January 1902, when she served as a surveying vessel on the Australia station. She visited Noumea and the Solomon Islands in June 1902. A fantastic and rare model with much attention paid to detail.
1902
Length 49 1/2"
Height 19 1/4" not including custom period base
Provenance: Michael Graham Stewart, Auckland, NZ
HMS Dart was a schooner of the Royal Navy, built by the Barrow Shipbuilding Company, Barrow and launched in 1877 as Cruiser for Lord Eglinton. She was subsequently purchased by the Colonial Office for the use of Sir Arthur Hamilton Gordon as governor of the Fiji Islands. On his appointment to New Zealand Cruiser was purchased by the Royal Navy as a tender for the training ship Britannia and the name changed to Dart in March 1882. Requisitioned as a yacht for the Commander-in-Chief, Australia Station, she instead was fitted out for survey duties of the Australia Station. She commenced service on the Australia Station in 1883 undertaking hydrographic surveys around Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific; including survey work in the waters of Fiji, Gilbert and Ellice Islands Marshall Islands and New Britain Island, from May to September, 1884. In 1885 she became the first command of Arthur Mostyn Field. She was reported as potentially lost on Wednesday 26 June 1889 after a whaleboat was found near North Cape, Auckland, but she later sailed into Sydney. Lieutenant Frederick Claude Coote Pasco was appointed in command in January 1902, when she served as a surveying vessel on the Australia station. She visited Noumea and the Solomon Islands in June 1902. A fantastic and rare model with much attention paid to detail.
1902
Length 49 1/2"
Height 19 1/4" not including custom period base
Provenance: Michael Graham Stewart, Auckland, NZ
HMS Dart was a schooner of the Royal Navy, built by the Barrow Shipbuilding Company, Barrow and launched in 1877 as Cruiser for Lord Eglinton. She was subsequently purchased by the Colonial Office for the use of Sir Arthur Hamilton Gordon as governor of the Fiji Islands. On his appointment to New Zealand Cruiser was purchased by the Royal Navy as a tender for the training ship Britannia and the name changed to Dart in March 1882. Requisitioned as a yacht for the Commander-in-Chief, Australia Station, she instead was fitted out for survey duties of the Australia Station. She commenced service on the Australia Station in 1883 undertaking hydrographic surveys around Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific; including survey work in the waters of Fiji, Gilbert and Ellice Islands Marshall Islands and New Britain Island, from May to September, 1884. In 1885 she became the first command of Arthur Mostyn Field. She was reported as potentially lost on Wednesday 26 June 1889 after a whaleboat was found near North Cape, Auckland, but she later sailed into Sydney. Lieutenant Frederick Claude Coote Pasco was appointed in command in January 1902, when she served as a surveying vessel on the Australia station. She visited Noumea and the Solomon Islands in June 1902. A fantastic and rare model with much attention paid to detail.